Monday, 27 January 2014

"As the name suggests, the project represents my true colours and what I have experienced in music. It shows my evolution, my growth. I promised myself that I wanted to make a project so fans could see the worth of buying it. It is a project that I can really encourage people to buy....We took the time to perfect it." -- Entertainer Wayne Marshll on the appeal of his new album, Tru Colours, out now **

"With this new cardiac ward, [the children facing surgery] have a fighting chance. We shifted all our interest in getting this ward up because that is how important it is." -- Philanthropist Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell on the long-term benefits of his Make A Difference Foundation's latest mega-donation to the Bustamante Hospital for Children **

"When you go to a track meet running the 400M hurdles, you are fully stressed out, but when you go to a track meet running the sprint hurdles you are having fun, and I think it is time for her to have fun, and I support her." -- Track icon Deon Hemmings-McCatty endorsing Olympian Melanie Walker's switch to the sprints**

"We are very happy for this, and we are looking forward to the other items to have a full slate for proper accountability because Jamaica's police have a high rate of fatal shootings and with that high rate there must be a high degree of quality accountability. Jamaica must be an example of quality accountability." -- INDECOM Commissioner Terrence Williams on the wearing of body cameras by members of the Jamaican constabulary **

"I am asking principals and other persons in the school system not to react in a defensive manner towards the findings of the [Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates] study because the school is an important channel for positive behavioural intervention support to take place." -- National Security Minister Peter Bunting on the islandwide backlash over the findings of the notorious JCF study